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, 1887-07-20
why the Crow Is Black.

The Indians of the extreme northwest
had some very remarkable legends about
the creation, in which the crow takes the
leading part, bringing order out of chaos.
Perhaps the most curious was that which
accounted for the ave coat of the crow.
One night, while making a tour through
his dominions, he stopped at the house
Of Can-nook, a chief, and begged for
lodging and a drink of water. Can-nook
offered him a bed, but, on account of the
scarcity of water, refused to give him
anything to drink. When all the rest
were asleep the crow got up to hunt for
the water butt, but was heard by Can
hooks wife, who aroused her husband.
He, thinking that the crow was about to
escape, piled logs of gum wood upon the
fire. The crow made desperate efforts to
fly through the hole in the roof where
h smoke escaped, but Can-nook caused
the smoke to be denser and denser, and
when the crow finally regained the outer
air he had a black plumage. 1t was pre-
viously white.-The American Magazine.
, 1887-07-20
WOMEN OF CENTRAL soUDAh.

A Bevy of African Beauties-Dress and
J~ewelry-SociaI Restrictions.
The women of the household nave got
over their first tremors, and come to the
conclusion that we are a good natured
and a harmless looking sort of fellows.
AT first they peep over the wall or out of
neighboring d~oorways, till, growing
holder, they venture in roups out of
their hiding places to see, and doubtless
to be seen. Not to alarm them, we take
notes surreptitiously, and observe that
they make up quite an chronological col
lection of African types. Fillani and
Haussa women from the neighborhood,
Nupe and Yoruba specimens from the
Niger districts, and others from the tribes
of Adamawa and the Beune region.
Clearly our friend is a man of catholic
tastes in the matter of women. His
harem presents all kinds of face and
figures, from the copper colored Fillani,
with slender, 1.-the figure, well shaped
face and positively beautiful eyes, to the
shapeless form, black skin, ugly face and
muddy eyes of the lowest negro type.
They are all dressed alike, with a lower
turkedi or cloth round the waist, hanging
to the ankles, a second sheet wound
round the body under the armpits, and a
third worn in the varied modes of a
shawl on the head and shoulders. The
hair is gathered into a solid ridge of
grease and hair, which extends from the
brow to the nape of the neck, something
after the manner of the crest of a helmet.
From each temple hangs a kind of stiff
love lock. The ankles are adorned with
enormously heavy anklets of solid brass,
the bar being little short of an inch and
u half in thickness, the ends ornamented
with neatly made polygonal beads. Moth
ing better finished could be turned out of
a European workshop. Round the wrist
are placed several more brass bracelets,
not so ~expansively made, but collectively
80 heavy hat to ease their arms the
wearers are frequently to be seen with
and clasped behind the head or hanging
down their backs. Their usu-
ally include n string of agate beads made
in the country. Thu women, unlike the
men, do not affect white colors, the more
fashionable cloths being checks of dark
blue, a medium tint of the same, white
and magenta. Among those who can
afford expensive articles the latter two
Colors are prevalent.
Strangers are not usually admitted into
the family compound, but it most not be
supposed that the women are strictly
kept inside and never let out. Quite the
reverse. In the evenings they are almost
invariably left at liberty to wander forth
and Join in any dance or merrymaking
there may be afoot, and / would not like
to be responsible for the statement that
their behavior is always best on these oc-
c~asions. During the day, also, if any of
the women have anything to buy or sell
at the market there is no restriction to
their going thither. In the more wealthy
families, however, there is always one if
not two wives who are kept in strict Sc
c~lusion, and not infrequently eunuchs
are employed to guard the morals of the
harem.-Joseph Thomson in Harper's
Magazine.
, 1887-07-20

Cornelius and William K. Vanderbilt
ave decided to commence a rather Curl
u business enterprise, which in its work
ings is expected to be benevolent, but
which will not have the least appearance
of charity about it. They AVE been con-
sidering the plan, which was suggested
by Erastus Wyman, for a long time.
They propose to build a large number of
small houses in the suburbs of New York
city, with every comfort and convent
ence, and sell them to working people at
cost. The purchaser will be insured
against the loss of the property, if he
meets with some misfortune before the
whole amount is paid up. The houses
will be sold on the installment plan, in
monthly or yearly payments which will
not amount to more thar a fair rental.
The life of the purchaser will be insured
to the extent of the unpaid amount of the
purchase price. The policy will be held
as a mortgage, and if the purchaser dies
the amount of the policy pays off what is
owing OF the house, which is then clear
for the heirs. The scheme is a novel
one, and the Vanderbilts will make an
experiment shortly by erecting fifty
houses on Staten Island, and charging
only a fair price for the property, which
will be sold only to working people,
Demorest's Monthly.
, 1887-07-20
POINTS.

Mr. Fred Landau arrived from Denver
yesterday.
N X. Boswell came up from Denver
last evening.
NJ. Brannock, Denver, is registered at
Dyer's hotel.
w. j. Garland came up from Pine
Bluffs Yesterday.
Geo. Hilbert, Denver, is visiting Chey-
enne a~cquaintances.
Hon. A. H. Reel left for a short stay in
the East yesterday morning.
j. r, Gordon, Central City, Neb., is
registered at the Inter Ocean.
DIR. Magee, the Laramie physician who
formerly practIced in Rawlins, is in the
city.
Deputy Sheriff Oscar Sharpless is sum
moning witnesses in the vicinity of Chug-
water.
NJ. ID. Altman, a brother of II. Altman,
of this city, arrived from the East last
evening.
}. W. Bruner completed the packing of
his household furniture yesterday and re-
turned to Denver.
John and Harry K%uykendall have re-
turned to town from a season spent on the
Carbon county ranges.
Prof Mark Birmingham and Alonzo
Martin have returned from a visit to the
Manhattan, Col, mining district.
Col. L. p. Schoonmaker, Troy, N. Y,
a member of the Wyoming Central Asso-
citation, arrived from the East last even
inn
, 1887-07-20

There are in the city of New York
nearly $50 miles of street railway, di-
vided among the sixteen companies, the
iron rails required to lay the tracks of
which, if stretched out in a continuous
line, would extend from New York to
Jacksonville, Fla. Over these tracks, for
the last year of which q report has been
made, Notwithstanding the SOC, 900 daily
passengers on the elevated roads, there
were carried the almost incredible num-
Der Of III ,499, 927 passengers. To trans
port this immense mass of humanity
there were required 2,04s cars, 15,407
horses and 6,062 employees. The total
stock of all the companies is represented
by over $50, 600, 000.-The Argonaut.
, 1887-07-20

There are few who endure bodily troubles
without complaint. Did you ever meet
among the heroes or heroines of your nc.
quaintance-if any such there have been
one with a yellowish cast circumference
and that ~jaundiced aspect generally, which
the most Impractical eye recognizes as the
product of a disordered liver, who did not
complain, and peevishly too, of the sore
ness of the recalcitrant organ, of pains
beneath the right shoulder blade. of dys-
pcptic symptoms, constipation and head
ache ? Of course you never did, and of
course the individual was not using Hos.
letters Stomach Bitters. or he would not
so have looked-so have complained To
purify the blood when contaminated with
bile. aud conduct the secretion into its
proper channel, to re establish regularity
of the bowels, Danish bilious headache
and remove impediments to complete di-
g%cstion, nothing can approach in efficacy
this peerless Alternative aud tome. Malarial
complaints, always involving the liver and
kidney and bladder inactivity. are rem
edied by it. 1t is a capital appetizer.
, 1887-07-20
How a King. LII. Wa. Saved.

Once his majesty was ill for several
weeks, really i'll, seriously at his age.
The doctors, of course, came every day,
sometimes twice or more, and they pre-
scribed as usual. Any one who has been
i'll for any length of time, and has been
attended in the ordinary way once or
twice a day by n doctor, will know
what various medicines are prescribed,
and changed again and again under each
phase of the disease, and he would, l be-
lieve, be astonished to soc all the medi-
cines he had drank during his illness.
Any one may then conceive what a
quantity was likely to be ordered, and
what changes were likely to be rung by
q bevy of doctors with such a precious
parsonage as a king for a patient. AS
any bottle or powder was brought his
majesty said, "Put it in the cupboard, :"
and again and again it was "Put it in the
cupboard" Not one drop vas touched.
Starving and patience were the only
remedies resorted TO.
AT last his majesty got his good turn
and began to feel he could eat again with
a relish, and by degrees nature flung off
this disorder, whatever it was, which had
run its course. His majesty was up and
dressed early and at business. "Get all
these bottles, powders and pill boxes out
of the c~upboards," he said, land range
them in a row round the room" 1t was
a very small room and they almost made
a circle round tho walls. The doctor
came in smirking and smiling and cor
graduated the king upon being up again
and looking so well. Eyes, doctors, ,
said his majesty, thank God it is so
But look there-count it up. Don't yor
think if / had drank all that stuff
, ald have been dead long agof"-
t..It and Times of King Ernest Of Han
, 1887-07-20

"Brea" is the name of a crude petro-
leum found in many places in tho south
ern counties Of California. The hot sun
quickly evaporates the liquid part, or the
coal oil, leaving the dreGs, or the
solid part, on the surface. 1t can
be broken into chunks when cold,
and is her ready for use. One ton of
wood, costing so, and one ton of brea,
costing SO, will burn as long as three
cords of wood at 50 per cord. This
makes $27 for the wood alone, and only
$12 for the brea and wood mixed.-Bos-
ton Budget.
, 1887-07-20

Sartain, the New York artist, thinks
that the worst defect in mems cos.
TUNES today is the rigidity of the hat
and the ugliness of the collar. The
derby and the stovepipe are not only in
artistic but exceedingly announcement.
He advocates a return TO the fashion of
wearing felt hats and the soft collars
that were in uOe fifty years ago. They
are much more pleasing TO the eye and
certainly more comfortable than the still
things that are worn nowadays.
, 1887-07-20

In the Sydney (Australia) lighthouse is
the largest electric light in the world. 1t
has a power of 1870, 900 candles, al d may
be seen from ships fifty miles Out at sea.
The next largest is in the Palais d'Indus-
trie, and has n power of 100, 900 candles.
The largest light in America is "a, 700
candle power. 1t is at San Jose, CAL
New York Commercial Advertiser.
, 1887-07-20

Makes the lives Of many people miserable
and often leads to self destruction. We
know of no remedy for dyspepsia more
successful than Hoods ~Sarsaparilla. 1t
acts gently, yet surely and efficiently, tones
the stomach and other organs, removes
the faint feeling, creates a good appetite,
cures headache, and retreshes the bur
dened mind. Give Hoods Sarsaparilla a
fair trial. 1t will do you good.
, 1887-07-20

The hest salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, 25 cents per
box. For sale by W. N. Hunt.
, 1887-07-20

A new discovery is that by the use of
citTic acid or citrate of silver, sea water
may be made d%rinkable. BY this means
chloride of silver is precipitated and a
harmless mineral water is produced. An
ounce of citrate makes a half pint oil
water drinkable. Public Opinion.
, 1887-07-20

me this LIST day of July, A. d.
1887:
[sEAL.1 T. J. FISHER,
Notary Public.
Audited and approved by order of the
board of the county commissioners this
10th day of July, 1887.
III. B. KELLY,
Chairman board county commissioners.
, 1887-07-20

!" We do hereby certify that zoe SitperuiSe The ar.
rdn0eHlentSI for all The MonthtUdnd SENT nnud
drawings Of the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pdny, and in person manage and control tht
Drawings Themselves, and thdt The sam G are con
Quoted With honesty, fairness, and in good Idiu
tot0drd all parties, and zoe duthorise the Com
Pd1ly 70 use HfS certificate, nth JdcstmfIeS of ottI
sfOnutIIreS attached in its ddUeTtisonenGS."
, 1887-07-20

Lameness and stiffness cured by st.
Jacobs oil promptly. At druggists.
, 1887-07-20

UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION
u Over Half a Million Distributed
Louisiana State Lottery Comp'Y


III H6UeT OCuteS or IOStDOneS.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly and the Semi Annuai Draw
regularly every six months, June and December
A OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
FORTUNE. Eighth Grand Drawing. Glass
H.. in the ACADEMY o. MUSIC, NEW
ORLEANS. TUESDAY, AUGUST O., 1857
2O7th MONTHLY Drawing
, 1887-07-20
49,953 "a
Outstanding June
70 1887

County OF LARAMIE, S.
| do solemnly swear that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct statement
of the expenditures with the items there
of for the six months ending June 30,
1887, and that the financial condition of
said county, so far as relates to floating
Indebtedness is therein correctly shown.
JOHN K. JEFFREY,
County clerk and clerk of the board Of
county commissioners.
Subscribed and sworn to before
, 1887-07-20
CAPITAL PRIZE $150,OOO.
Notice. Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves, SIS. Fifths. 81. Tenths. 81.

2,I79 Prizes amounting 1886, 600
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office OF the Company in New Or
leans.
For further Information write clearly, giving
full address. Postal Notes, Express Money
Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary
letter. Currency by express (t our expense)
addressed 10
NJ. a. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La,
Or NJ. A. Washington, DC.
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3---A Quotation.

My first is a pronoun of two letters.
My second is a verb substantive con-
tanning two letters.
My third is place we all desire to
see.
My fourth is a sad word for homeless
ones.
My fifth designates a particular per-
son or thing.
My sixth is an auxiliary verb
My seventh means to bestow gratuit-
ously.
My eighth is never near at hand
My ninth is contradiction of pro-
noun and verb of two letters EACH
My tenth is an adjective of four
letters meaning single.
My eleventh is the supreme ruler
of all.
My twelfth is verb meaning to be
possible.
My thirteenth is verb of two letters
meaning to exist.
My fourteenth is a verb meaning
possessed.
My fifteenth is a conjunction of three
letters.
My sixteenth is definite adjective.
My seventeenth is a verb which
means requesting.
My whole comprises two lines from
the pen of James Russell Lowell.
EN- VERITE.
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" on, wad some power the giftie gle us
To see ourselves as ithers see u.s."

Few women want to appear sick, and
yet how many we see, with pain writ
ten on every feature, who have been
suffering for months from female
weakness, and who could easily cure
themselves by the use of DR.. Pierce's
" Favorite Prescription" to be found
at any drugstore. This remedy is a
specific for weak backs, nervous or
neuralgia pains and all that class of
diseases known as "female complaints"
Illustrated, large treatise on diseases
of women, with most successful courses
OF self-treatment, sent for ten cents in
stamps. Address Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 663 Main street,
Buffalo, n Y.
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fur tbe CHILDREN.
Grandpa's Pet.

When sunshine lifts the drowsy lids of morn
And earth awakes,
Sweet as the lark my little grandchids voice
The silence breaks.
His gladstone face reflects the rosy tint
OF summer Skies
And ever from the prattling lips there comes
Some sweet surprise.
As flowers unfold their petals to the air
And scent the EARTH
So buds and blossoms forth his baby life
In fragrant birth
He drains the nectar from life's chalice sweet
OF chidhood's years,
And recks not of the vexng cares unborn,
OF griefs and tears
Thus day by day he brightens all the hours
And romps and plays
A petted idol throned in loving hearts
BY winning ways.
With laughing eyes he shakes his golden curls,
So charming cute
You fain condone the mischief that he does
by keeping mute.
And though the past with all its garnered years
Scarce counts him three,
Inwoven with my wool of life he grows
More dear to me-
God grant through all the heritage of time
To him ordained
The sweet fruition of life well spent
And honors gained.
The american Angier
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BentOn's Hair Grower.

All who are BALD, all who are becoming
BALD, all who do not want TO be BALD,
all who are troubled with DANDRUFF, or
ITCHING of the scalp, should use Benton's
Hair Grower. EIGHTY PER CENT OF those
using it have grown hair. 1t never fails to
stop the hair from falling. Through sick
ness and fevers the hair sometimes falls off
in a short time, and although the person
may have remained bald for years, if you
use Benton's Hair Grower according to di-
rections you are sure of growth OF hair.
In hundreds of cases we have produced
good growth of Hair on those who have
been bald and glazed for years. We have
fully substantiated the following facts;
We grow Hair in so cases out of 100 no
matter how long bald.
Unlike other preparations, it contains no
sugar of lead, or vegetable or mineral
poisons.
1t is a specific for falling hair, dandruff,
and itching of the scalp.
The hair grower IL hair food, and its
composition is almost exactly like the
oil which supplies the hair with its
vitality.
DOUBLE AND TRIPLE STRENGTH.
When the skin is very tough and hard,
and the follicle is apparently effectually
closed, the Single strength will sometimes
fail to reach the papilla; in such cases the
Double or Triple strength should be used in
connection with the Single, using them al
ternately.
Price, Single strength, $780, Double
strength $780, Triple strength $500. If
your druggists have not got il we will send
1t prepaid on receipt of price.
BENTON HAIR GROWER co.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Wholesale Agent, JNo. H. FRANCIS, 70
Maiden Lane, New York City.
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TO temporize with your health in
stead of promptly using DR.. Bulls Bal
timore Pills is supreme folly.
POSITIVELY the best-Day's Horse
Powder See that you get no other
All druggists keep it,
The baby's best friend" is the
most appropriate title for DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup. Guaranteed pure.
WITHOUT peer-Drexel's Bell Co.
logne. Twenty-Five cents.
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2---AcrOstic,

Words of equal length.)
Words denoting action.
"a woman's name.
"a chemical salt
Images.
5-An English writer.
6-The plural of a delightful resi-
dence.
The first and fourth letters of each
word give the names of two European
cities. f. V. A.
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THE popular blood purifier, Hoods
Sarsaparilla, is having tremendous
sale this season. Nearly everybody
takes it. Try it yourself.
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pus3le Corner.
1...Charade.

bought a first and read 1t through
And thought that all I read was true;
And in my last read name
Which almost set my brain aname
II was my mothers name read
The paper said that she was dead;
And so, tchoie, by the train went
To the scene of the horrible accident.
In Roslindae, near Dedham town,
That is the place the train went down,
The first was wrong, the reports increased,
found my mother not hurt in the least
ST. STEPHANo.
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Yeaal Motites.
JOsLyN.s ESTATE.
WILLIAM PADAY'S ESTATE;

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Washing
ton Commissioners, TO receive, examine and ad-
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of William Paddy, late of Warren, in
said District deceased, and all claims exhibited in
dset thereto hereby give notice that we will meet
or the purposes aforesaid at the late home
of the deceased. ON the I'd day of May and
9Th day of July next from one o'clock p. M.
until four o'clock T.. Nj, each of said days and that
six months from the 22d day of March, A. ID. 1857,
is the time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated AT Warren, this 29th day of March, A d. 1887
1901 /. H. HANKS, commissioners
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To Our Subscribers!
Superb Steel Engraving of LongfeI|ow
i'm His Library

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CORDED ginghams are among the
pretty, new fabrics for the coming
season.
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THE quilts of geese and turkeys are
now manufactured into substitute for
whalebone.
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THREE rows of small buttons are
seen on little boys jackets for spring
wear.
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ROOT BEER
MitClell'S BGlladOnna PlaSterS.

This is the oldest and most reliable Belladonna
Plaster made, and contains an extra quantity of
BelladOnna. Especially valuable for Pain Weak
ness in the Breast, Side, Back, or Limbs; also for
Liver Complaint, Weak Lungs, Coughs, Cold Spot
ing, Pleurisy, etc. in all which they give i'm
mediate and permanent relief.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
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advertisements.
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After much suffering from Liver and
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always find them prompt and thorough
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Keeps me in perfectly healthy condi-
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Twenty-Five years ago 1 suffered from
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Since that time have never been with
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UNEQUALED-Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy.